[Item: Coral]
[Item Description: Wow! A precious tree-like coral reef! Judging by its species, volume, and height, this coral began growing approximately 550 years ago. Time has bestowed upon it an elegant form, and the years have dramatically increased its value. Coral polyps inhabit it; if they were to peer down, they would see their great-great-great-great-grandmother.]
[Appraised Value: 897,000 Yuan]
Holy crap! Jiang Ye was ecstatic.
Such a coral tree could fetch nearly a million yuan.
Judging by the sonar detection range, there were still a lot of coral trees on the seabed!
The most crucial point was that mining this wasn't troublesome; digging it out from the roots would yield a large chunk directly.
However, it was too late, and he couldn't stay long.
Jiang Ye marked the location and tapped the screen, activating the fishing boat's return voyage.
At 11:50 PM, the fishing boat docked.
Jiang Ye disembarked. The construction site in the distance had fallen quiet, with only a few workers occasionally strolling by, moving from one spaceship to another.
On the beach, the wolves were sleeping in their dens.
Catching the scent of their master, the wolves awoke, wagging their tails. Many stood up, showing great enthusiasm.
"Sleep, sleep," Jiang Ye waved his hand.
As if understanding, the wolves lay back down.
Jiang Ye walked to the base vehicle's door and saw a letter hanging on the doorknob.
Opening it, he recognized Xu Yan's handwriting:
"Dear Mr. Jiang, construction of 40 houses was completed today. Another 20 houses, along with the police station and monitoring system, are still unfinished and are expected to be completed within the next two days. If you wish to visit, please contact me tomorrow morning. Additionally, during the night shutdown, you can use your own road printing vehicle to lay out the town's road network."
Jiang Ye shrugged. Perhaps Xu Yan had grown impatient waiting, so she left a note.
He first returned to the base vehicle and stewed himself a pot of vegetable medley.
After eating, he still wasn't very sleepy, so he decided to do some road paving.
To save money, Jiang Ye declined the offer from Termite Real Estate to pave the town's roads, opting to do it himself.
After all, the road printing vehicle, bought for five million, would be a waste if not used.
Walking to the beach, a row of large machinery was parked quietly: excavators, ore trucks, rotorcraft, road printing vehicles, tree harvesters...
Jiang Ye realized he actually owned quite a few vehicles, but he lacked a Lamborghini or a Ferrari.
But as things stood, ancient car manufacturers like Lamborghini and Ferrari had likely gone bankrupt thousands of years ago.
He opened the road printing vehicle's door and sat in the driver's seat.
Although he had bought it long ago, this was Jiang Ye's first time driving it. Isabel had driven it to pave the roads at the express center before.
Next to the steering wheel was a screen. A light tap of his finger illuminated it.
[Please select the road surface material you wish to pave:]
[Asphalt Road]
[Concrete Road]
[Hard Earth Road]
Jiang Ye decisively clicked [Asphalt Road]. "To get rich, first build roads; build the best."
[Please select the road width:]
A length bar appeared, which could be adjusted arbitrarily, from a minimum of two meters to a maximum of twenty meters wide.
Jiang Ye chose ten meters wide.
Lines of prompts popped up on the screen:
[Press the center of the steering wheel to print the road]
[Please control the direction of the road printing vehicle carefully; once a road is printed, it cannot be changed]
[The road surface you have selected is a ten-meter asphalt road, costing 5,000 Yuan per hundred meters, which will be automatically deducted from your account]
Jiang Ye pressed the accelerator. The road printing vehicle roared to life and, at a speed of ten miles per hour, drove towards the town.
The vehicle was quite heavy. Even with the accelerator floored, it couldn't pick up speed, crawling like a turtle.
Finally, he reached the edge of the town.
Jiang Ye carefully straightened the vehicle's front, placed his palm on the center of the steering wheel, and pressed down hard!
A roaring sound erupted, the noise so immense it felt like it could rupture his eardrums.
"Holy crap? That loud?" Jiang Ye was startled, unable to hear his own words, completely drowned out by the vehicle's noise.
He felt as if he wasn't driving a vehicle but sitting on the exhaust of a heavy rocket.
Pressing the accelerator forward, the road printing vehicle worked automatically, emitting hot mist from its rear and slowly extruding a ten-meter-wide asphalt road!
The vehicle's speed also dropped directly to two miles per hour, from a turtle's crawl to a snail's pace.
Jiang Ye's expression was pained. He kept his mouth open; the machine's noise was so loud he feared his eardrums would burst if it continued for too long.
Time became incredibly long. If the noise hadn't been so immense, this job would have been quite leisurely, but this vehicle was indeed outrageously loud.
Just as Jiang Ye was about to pass out, the first asphalt road was printed.
He couldn't stand it any longer and immediately released his palm, shutting down the road printing vehicle.
The world instantly fell silent, so quiet it felt like he had gone deaf.
Opening the door, he stepped out to inspect the quality of the new road.